Should I Buy A New Jeep Wrangler JL That I Helped Engineer?

I hold flip-flopping on this. I have hardly ever purchased a new motor vehicle. Primarily as someone with wrenching competencies, I just come across it fiscally silly. And but, mainly because I was on the Jeep Wrangler JL engineering crew, part of me would like to order a brand name spankin’ new a person. Adhere shift, base design, inexperienced with tan major perhaps 50 % doors. Is this a poor concept?

My opportunity to invest in a new car is slipping away. The only new motor vehicle I’d at any time even consider buying is a Jeep Wrangler JL, and which is simply because it has the most effective-engineered cooling process of any vehicle to at any time roam this earth. Ahem, in any case. [Brushes shoulder].

I can inform when my thoughts are getting the greatest of me, and I’d say correct now is a single of these instances. Acquiring a new motor vehicle is a poor notion. Irrespective of a Wrangler’s fantastic resale worth, in ten decades, it’ll be really worth at least $10,000 significantly less than it is nowadays. In the meantime, my latest crop of cars is actually appreciating in value, and the types I have whipped into shape (my Jeep J10, handbook Jeep Grand Cherokee, 1965 Mustang) are necessitating only modest, low-cost repairs listed here and there. They are lifeless reputable and earning me income. Not that I seem at cars as investments.

Seriously, I shouldn’t get a new Wrangler. It’s a terrible thought. But then once more, you only get a single shot to buy a automobile that you aided engineer does this make a difference, or ought to I just invest in a person in ten a long time?

I really don’t know. But I’m running out of time to make this conclusion, due to the fact however I’d by no means obtain a to start with model-12 months auto, I would not want a final design-calendar year motor vehicle, either. As a automobile gets aged-in-the-tooth, automakers pull out more and far more content in a follow that, at Chrysler, is regarded as “Technical Cost Reduction.” So if I wait too very long, the base JL might be cheapened to the position where by it’s not as good of a benefit proposition (shoot, you presently have to shell out for any paint color that is not white). Additionally, who appreciates how prolonged Jeep will provide the handbook V6 that I want.

So, time is of the essence that brings me to the dilemma: If I ended up to acquire a new JL, should it be this, the base Activity with fifty percent doors:

Are those people brilliant half doorways worthy of shelling out for if I have to deal with these hideous uppers?:

God that two-piece entrance window horrible.

Anyway, I have to select amongst the fifty percent doorway and the tan top the trouble is, I simply cannot get the tan major on the foundation JL. I have to get the “Sport S,” which fees a small far more, but also will come with air conditioning standard:

The two equipped with AC, the rate concerning the two is a wash. So the concern is: Fifty percent doorway or tan leading? The 50 %-doorway design appears to be like greater with the roof off, but with the roof on, it is tan leading all day.

As for the interiors, I’d want the tan seats:

These devices would cost about $35,500. That is approximately 15 moments what I historically pay back for cars and trucks. Should really I do it, or need to I hold out 50 many years, when I can acquire a carefully-decayed one for $300 and a pack of Juicy Fruit? But who is aware, I may possibly not last that extended. Probably I can hold out 30 years? Even then, who is aware of how good my wrenching expertise will be.

Then there’s the concern about the very long-expression viability of owning an inefficient ICE-powered car. Is gasoline going to charge $8 in 10 many years? Will this Jeep’s benefit plummet even additional?

I seriously need to have to end tempting myself with Jeep’s Build and Rate web page and click again over to my convenience zone, Fb Marketplace — the land filled with affordable Jeep YJs and Jeep FJ Fleetvans.